Web bugs

After all these years, the Internet is still a mess. For example, search for "smoke rings" and you might get several types of results. Some are for the meaning "daydreams" and others are about vortex rings. Some search engines try to help resolve the categories on the side, but the real solution is to have the site label its content with some kind of codes based on the subject. It sounds like a huge, dificult project to create such a subject code, but it already exists: The Dewey Decimal System. Most libraries in the US use it. It is copyrighted by Online Computer Library Center. There are other systems, and it is not important which one is used, but some system could be used to help people classify the information in their sites. In many cases, multiple codes would be used. It can be as simple as a standard tag: . Search engines would use the DDC tag number to split search results to help the user get to the kind of results he is looking for.
Another annoying detail on the web is that the autofill feature of some browsers can't understand some forms. The problem is that the forms do not use consistent names for the form fields. Somebody please standardize this! And allow the autofill to work with the pop-up for State.

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